Friday 28th September 2012

POTW: Bentley is back!

The thought of Bentley getting stuck in with Mercs, Porsches and Audis has got us very excited indeed!

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There are plenty of tasty cars vying for POTW status debuting over at Paris this week. Most of them British, which is rather pleasing. And all offering characterful, eccentric and very different expressions of excess that pour hearty scorn on the general obsession with downsized engines, hybrids and CO2 outputs.

Pah! Life's too short say the Brits. Range Rovers for the country set, Jags for the cads, art deco Rollers for the antiques dealers, the McLaren P1 for the wannabe racing drivers and, for the actual ones, a privateer racing Bentley to go out and show the Germans what's what in the more gentlemanly sport of GT racing.

Who'd have thought you could make a racing car out of a Continental GT eh? But then you'd have said the same about the 'trucks' of the 1920s and 30s. And look what happened there.

So it's a press shot. But it's the best of British out of a particularly strong showing at Paris, which is saying something given that it's 'just' a regular car we already know with a daft wing on the back, lashings of carbon fibre and side exhausts. Yes, we're that easily bought. And here it is, cropped to bring the spirit of the Bentley Boys to the desktop of your choosing.

Tally ho!

Traditional (4:3)
Computer widescreen (16:10)
TV widescreen (16:9)
Portrait (smartphone, etc)

[MrTappets]

Marvellous! And do we know whether it's going to be the W12 or the V8 yet?

[Garlick]

Steven Ireland said:

Yeah, it's the racing edition, innit...

[dublet]

[P4ROT]

Garlick said:

WAT in the name of holy Jesus is that....that...THING?

[MichelV]

Unbelievable.

PH posts a nice picture of a Bentley GT3 and next, 2 posts down the very own PH posts a fraking ugly Bentley of some local football player. No pie for you this weekend Garlick!

[Garlick]

MichelV said:

Unbelievable.

PH posts a nice picture of a Bentley GT3 and next, 2 posts down the very own PH posts a fraking ugly Bentley of some local football player. No pie for you this weekend Garlick!

A fair punishment.

[xRIEx]

Garlick said:

I've been furiously scrolling up and down the page, trying to spot the differences in an effort to explain why I like the GT3 and despise this abomination.

[T1berious]

Garlick said:

Never has the "whats been seen cannot be unseen" been more aptly put to the test.

That sir, is just wrong. It's like Max Power meets "Noddy".....

[EDLT]

MichelV said:

Unbelievable.

PH posts a nice picture of a Bentley GT3 and next, 2 posts down the very own PH re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-reposts a fraking ugly Bentley of some local football player. No pie for you this weekend Garlick!

EFA

[Garlick]

Meow

[MichelV]

God damn man get that fugly footballers Bentley off this page. Or I will tell your wife.

I also need to correct myself, the lowlife in the Bentley has a baseball cap on, so it must be a Gangsta or a Playa...

All the same...REMOVE!

[Blayney]

Second week in a row I've been gutted it's not the P1

[HeavySoul]

MrTappets said:

Marvellous! And do we know whether it's going to be the W12 or the V8 yet?

Going to be down to which series/events they are aiming at I presume. I would imagine they would offer both engine choices to their private race team purchasers.

V8 would certainly be better on fuel/brakes/weight for endurance races, but then a V12 brings noticable aural benefits for the spectators.

It is a brute of a thing either way.

Tally Ho!

[garypotter]

P4ROT said:

Garlick said:

WAT in the name of holy Jesus is that....that...THING?

That is one ugly car, beauty in the eye of the holder etc, but surely with that bad eye sight should he be driving???

[u81922]

Someone's been asleep at the wheel! Bentley is German now, Jaguar and Landrover are Indian. Only McLaren is vaguely British.

[u81922]

It'll be great to see Bentley back on track and it looks stunning.

[trando]

Garlick said:

Footballers: Too much money + no taste = the kind of abomination you see here....

[gary71]

u81922 said:

Someone's been asleep at the wheel! Bentley is German now, Jaguar and Landrover are Indian. Only McLaren is vaguely British.

Tell that to all the thousands of people that design, engineer and build these cars in the UK

More pics available here in resolutions so big you could decorate your house in...

http://www.bentleymedia.com/images-model-51.htm



edited to add photos link

Edited by gary71 on Friday 28th September 22:11

[MoelyCrio]

trando said:

Garlick said:

Footballers: Too much money + no taste = the kind of abomination you see here....

Correction: Premiership footballer with proud traveler roots = the kind of abomination you see here....

Stephen Ireland has form



Not that I'm jealous...

[kazino]

That would be fantastic to watch eating up Porsches and Mercs, wonder what the interior looks like